Lifetime and age-conditional probabilities of developing or dying of cancer in Japan

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 571-576

  Kamo, Ken Ichi ^a   Katanoda, Kota ^b   Matsuda, Tomohiro ^b   Marugame, Tomomi ^b   Ajiki, Wakiko ^b   Sobue, Tomotaka ^b  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age conditional probability; Developing cancer; Dying of cancer; Life table; Lifetime probability

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVOR; CARCINOGENESIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; LIFE TABLE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 51649091222     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyn061     Document Type: Article

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